Sit in your chair. Look at your screen. What do you see?
My screen; well, 3 of them actually. No, I haven't been drinking. THERE ARE THREE SCREENS.
Not on your screen, but what do you see in your periphery?
THREE SCREENS. NOT FOUR. THREE. Oh, periphery? Stuff.
You see your hands on the HOTAS, or keyboard and mouse, if you're into such a things.
I don't know where you put your hands, but I don't often see mine. I SEE THREE SCREENS. I shan't break, you know. THREE. SCREENS.
No, I have to move my head to do that; and when I do that in game? I see my chest. Sometimes it's a surprise because I have 3 commander accounts and two of them are a different gender and I can tell you it's a surprise, every time.
You see your nose. You see your cheeks. You see a vague outline of your eye's FoV.
Actually I can only do that if I squint. Or concentrate; the human brain is wonderful in that it will happily filter out extraneous input unless one focuses on it.
You see your legs. You see your feet.
Nope, I see THREE SCREENS. And a desk. The desk is between my face and my feet. This might come as a shock. It does have THREE SCREENS on it though and I really will not break. Stop telling me I am seeing things I am not.
Weirdly, though, if I move my head around, I can. Weirdly, though, if I move my in-game head around, I can.
In the cockpit that we currently have, you see none of these things and it gives a disembodied effect.
Actually I can see all these things fine; it's called POV control, or head tracking, or VR.
Is there any way to re-position the PoV and add graphics to properly reflect what we would see if we were a body in our ships?
As much as I have often wondered what it would be like to look through my own head, I'll pass. And we are a body in our ships. Camera is right were our head is.
Also, breathing sound effects should be added when the ship pulls high g's, or if it's hit by a particularly powerful round, etc. Don't underestimate the immersion effect personal sounds have on game play. I would love to hear the cut off scream my cmdr makes as his canopy blows away.
"In space no one can hear you scream."
Also we already have laboured breathing with low oxygen levels, which is haunting enough; this game has a PEGI rating so if you want blood and guts and screaming, just endless screaming, this isn't the game. However, I can attest that
the forums are
highly immersive if you like just endless screaming.. which is occasionally cut o-